We demonstrate a self-starting erbium fiber oscillator-amplifier system based on the nonlinear polarization rota- tion mode-locked mechanism. The direct output pulse from the amplifier is 47fs with an average power of...We demonstrate a self-starting erbium fiber oscillator-amplifier system based on the nonlinear polarization rota- tion mode-locked mechanism. The direct output pulse from the amplifier is 47fs with an average power of 1.22 W and a repetition rate of 50 MHz, corresponding to a pulse energy of 24 nJ. The full width at half-maximum of the spectrum of the output pulses is approximately 93nm at a central wavelength of 1572nm so that the transform- limited pulse duration is as short as 39 fs. Due to the imperfect dispersion compensation, we compress the pulses to 47fs in this experiment.展开更多
A theoretical analysis of noise in a high-power cascaded fiber amplifier is presented. Unlike the noise theory in low power communication, the noise of a high power system is redefined as the leaked output energy betw...A theoretical analysis of noise in a high-power cascaded fiber amplifier is presented. Unlike the noise theory in low power communication, the noise of a high power system is redefined as the leaked output energy between pulses with coherent beat noise uncounted. This definition is more appropriate for high power usage in which the pulse energy receives more attention than the pulse shape integrity. Then the low power pre-amplifying stages are considered as linear amplification and analyzed by linear theory. In the high-power amplification stages, the inversion is assumed to recover linearly in the time interval between pulses. The time shape of the output pulse is different from that of the input signal because of different gains at the front and back ends of the pulse. Then, a criterion is provided to distinguish the nonlinear and linear amplifications based on the signal-to-noise ratio （SNR） analysis. Then, an experiment that shows that the output SNR actually drops off in nonlinear amplification is performed. The change in the noise factor can be well evaluated by pulse shape distortion.展开更多
We report on a grating-free fiber chirped pulse amplifier(CPA)at 2.8μm for the first time.The CPA system adopted Er:ZBLAN fiber with large anomalous dispersion as the stretcher and germanium(Ge)rods as the compressor...We report on a grating-free fiber chirped pulse amplifier(CPA)at 2.8μm for the first time.The CPA system adopted Er:ZBLAN fiber with large anomalous dispersion as the stretcher and germanium(Ge)rods as the compressor with a compact structure.High-energy picosecond pulses of 2.07μJ were generated at the repetition rate of 100 kHz.Using highly dispersive Ge rods,the amplified pulses were compressed to 408 fs with a pulse energy of 0.57μJ,resulting in a peak power of approximately 1.4 MW.A spectral broadening phenomenon in the main amplifier was observed,which was caused by the special gain shape of the Er:ZBLAN fiber amplifier in operation and confirmed by our numerical simulation.This compact fiber CPA system at 2.8μm will be practical and meaningful for application fields.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant No 2017YFB1104500the Science and Technology Project of Guangdong Province under Grant Nos 20148090903014,20158090920003,20168090917002 and20168090926004
文摘We demonstrate a self-starting erbium fiber oscillator-amplifier system based on the nonlinear polarization rota- tion mode-locked mechanism. The direct output pulse from the amplifier is 47fs with an average power of 1.22 W and a repetition rate of 50 MHz, corresponding to a pulse energy of 24 nJ. The full width at half-maximum of the spectrum of the output pulses is approximately 93nm at a central wavelength of 1572nm so that the transform- limited pulse duration is as short as 39 fs. Due to the imperfect dispersion compensation, we compress the pulses to 47fs in this experiment.
基金Project supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2011AA8042032)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61077034 and 61301190)
文摘A theoretical analysis of noise in a high-power cascaded fiber amplifier is presented. Unlike the noise theory in low power communication, the noise of a high power system is redefined as the leaked output energy between pulses with coherent beat noise uncounted. This definition is more appropriate for high power usage in which the pulse energy receives more attention than the pulse shape integrity. Then the low power pre-amplifying stages are considered as linear amplification and analyzed by linear theory. In the high-power amplification stages, the inversion is assumed to recover linearly in the time interval between pulses. The time shape of the output pulse is different from that of the input signal because of different gains at the front and back ends of the pulse. Then, a criterion is provided to distinguish the nonlinear and linear amplifications based on the signal-to-noise ratio （SNR） analysis. Then, an experiment that shows that the output SNR actually drops off in nonlinear amplification is performed. The change in the noise factor can be well evaluated by pulse shape distortion.
基金partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.62075126 and 62005161)the Chenguang Program。
文摘We report on a grating-free fiber chirped pulse amplifier(CPA)at 2.8μm for the first time.The CPA system adopted Er:ZBLAN fiber with large anomalous dispersion as the stretcher and germanium(Ge)rods as the compressor with a compact structure.High-energy picosecond pulses of 2.07μJ were generated at the repetition rate of 100 kHz.Using highly dispersive Ge rods,the amplified pulses were compressed to 408 fs with a pulse energy of 0.57μJ,resulting in a peak power of approximately 1.4 MW.A spectral broadening phenomenon in the main amplifier was observed,which was caused by the special gain shape of the Er:ZBLAN fiber amplifier in operation and confirmed by our numerical simulation.This compact fiber CPA system at 2.8μm will be practical and meaningful for application fields.
